Documentary, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life – includes interesting details about Ayn Rand’s years in Hollywood. Read Scott Holleran’s interview with Michael Paxton who wrote and directed this Oscar nominated documentary. Purchase @ Amazon.

Scott Holleran: Is it true you attended Ayn Rand’s memorial service when she died in 1982?

Michael Burns: It was the winter of 1982 and I had just started work for Merrill Lynch, beginning my Wall Street career and I went to her wake, which was incredibly well attended. I just went because I had read about her [death] in the New York Times and it was sort of open and, you know, you want your funeral or your wake to take place on a really dreary day and it was—it was almost like a movie set. There were people from all walks of life and I would guess the majority didn’t agree with many of the things that she stood for – yet they were there paying homage to her mind and her strong belief in something. I went by myself. I was 22 years old.